Oklahoma 2025 2025 Regular Session

Oklahoma Senate Bill SB991 Introduced / Bill

Filed 01/16/2025

                     
 
 
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STATE OF OKLAHOMA 
 
1st Session of the 60th Legislature (2025) 
 
SENATE BILL 991 	By: Thompson 
 
 
 
 
 
AS INTRODUCED 
 
An Act relating to discrimination; adopting certain 
definition of anti-Semitism; stating purposes for use 
of certain definition; constr uing provisions; 
providing for codification; providing an effective 
date; and declaring an emergency. 
 
 
 
 
 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA: 
SECTION 1.     NEW LAW     A new section of law to be codified 
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 1911 of Title 25, unless there 
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows: 
A.  The State of Oklahoma hereby adopts the non -legally binding 
Working Definition of Anti -Semitism adopted by the International 
Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) on May 26, 2016, including the 
contemporary examples of anti -Semitism set forth therein, 
exclusively as a tool and guide for training, education, and 
recognizing and combating anti -Semitic hate crimes or discrimination 
and for tracking and reporting anti -Semitic incidents in this state. 
B.  The provisions of this act shall not be construed to 
diminish or infringe upon any right protected under the First   
 
 
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Amendment to the United States Constitution or the Oklahoma 
Constitution. 
SECTION 2.  This act shall become effective July 1, 2025. 
SECTION 3.  It being immediately necessary for the preservation 
of the public peace, health or safety, an emergency is hereby 
declared to exist, by reason whereof this ac t shall take effect and 
be in full force from and after its passage and approv al. 
 
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